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"Summer, summer, summertime. Time to sit back and unwind." (Who gets the reference?)
Join me for this month's free RadReads event where I'll be tackling the thorny question: Should you leave a high-paying job?
I'll be covering a step-by-step playbook for pivoting into a career that considers identity, financial runway, narrative-building and aliveness. It's free on Tuesday, June 27th at 2 p.m. ET.
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"I've been grinding hard.
I'm in my 30s.
I'm remote, traveling the world and having awesome experiences.
But I'm dissatisfied with my daily life.
What do I do?
It's what I dreamed of and worked so hard to achieve.
But I literally feel no happier, than when I was broke."
This entrepreneur continued:
What do you do when you feel empty? (2 mins) → |
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Here are this week's top reads:
Should you abandon ambition? Anand Giridharadas says "no" in this commencement speech. However, he challenges 2023 grads to be “ambitious about your whole life, about everything, not just your work and your career.” His advice, pick craft over career.
The ultra-rich need fixers. Whether it’s for a party in San Tropez, romantic matchmaking or the pursuit of happiness - it turns out that money helps for a lot of things. Yet the fixer's key role: “finding a solution to the emptiness the rich can feel inside themselves.”
What’s the difference between achievement and accomplishment? Achievement comes with a reward from the outside — then the immediate need for another one. Accomplishment is self-directed, "an engulfing activity we’ve chosen, whose reward is the sudden rush of fulfillment, the sense of happiness that rises uniquely from absorption in a thing outside ourselves."
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What makes people truly happy? Is it a job well done, a fancy dinner food or chunky investment portfolio? Turns out it’s simply nurturing their relationships and prioritizing love.
The capitalist narrative of freedom and achievement has pernicious downstream effects to knowledge workers. If you don’t pay attention, you’re launched on a treadmill of output and productivity — just to prove your worth.
And finally, when you get that coveted Goldman Sachs job.
With gratitude,
Khe
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